‘More than kin and less than kind’

15 September 2015

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This week over at the Broke and Bookish the Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie – which basically means you can come up with whatever idea you like.  My topic this week is fictional families.  From comedic to vampiric, brought up by animals or members of nobility who simply act like animals.  Fantasy families:

1. The Cratchits from Charles Dickens Christmas Carol – a great family, poor in money, rich in love.
2. The Weasley’s from J K Rowling’s Harry Potter – a great family – again, they haven’t got two pennies to rub together but they’re an excellent family and bring great entertainment value to the series.
3. The Bennetts from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.  The beleaguered Mr Bennett with his five daughters.  Not to mention his rather loud wife.  I was always puzzled how the two of them ever would have got together. (Ahem, not really fantasy, but….)
4. The Scotts from M L Brennan’s Generation V series.  This is a very unusual family – they’re all vampires.  The head of the family is the now aged Madeline, the family matriarch who doesn’t suffer fools.  The children, Fort – who is only just really starting to feel his true vampire self. His sister Prudence.  A total maniac who terrifies all the other supernatural critters in the series and their elder brother Chivalry.
5. The Lannisters from GRRMartin’s Game of Thrones series – could you have a more odd family!  They really don’t need any introduction do they?
6. The Cassels – a family of curse workers, each with different abilities, highly illegal of course, which gets them into a lot of trouble.  Holly Black’s curse worker series.
7. Merricat, her sister and uncle – the remaining Blackwood’s from Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.  These three are the only surviving members of an arsenic attack.  I won’t elaborate as it would ruin the plot.  All I will say is that Merricat is a very strange creature in deed.
8. Coraline’s ‘other’ family in the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman.  Very good example of being careful what you wish for.
9. Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book.  Brought up by wolves and with a bear and a panther as mentors.  A very unusual family indeed.
10. The Adam’s family – I had to have them.  Wednesday and Pugsley, Cousin It, Uncle Fester – one of the strangest and darkest families ever – but I would have loved to pay them a visit for some strange reason.

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